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      <p>The <a href="../api_reference/C/dbstat.html" class="olink">DB-&gt;stat()</a> method returns a set of statistics about the underlying
database, for example, the number of key/data pairs in the database, how
the database was originally configured, and so on.</p>
      <p>There is a flag you can set to avoid time-consuming operations:</p>
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          <dd>Return only information that can be acquired without traversing the
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